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P?BLISHJ5P THREE TD DEAMSl'RAI ..... ? . Sr. J. B. Kelly, of,Charleston, Rao Over and is Iqstantly Killed. ' ? I eis deaih i mm0 tEto Body ^pf the Well KppJ? Wood Dealer iWas ^<>ond %s.ide .^ho Track of the Southern Railway ? "With the ^ead .iSe^ered ^ntirely From It. - Decapitated, .it .is ..thought, by a Southern ^ilway ^in,^hp}he?.d|e^s * body of Mr., J. B. Kelly, ^weU-knoren. .wood dealer .of Charleston, ? was Sound Tuesday morning;, at a; Quarter after 7 o&ock, on '" Southern's tracks, just above '.Ltne. the News and .Courier. , The body. was.found ,by a railway, clerk, and"- .'at once* reported to the police -authorities. The coroner, was notified; hut no eyewitnesses, could be found, :and'.the fi^djas of a ver dict was pbstpcned. air. Kelly lived on Meeting street, opposite Sumter,, and '.it',!?-thought' that he was pn'"his way home,'when Hie was striiick by the train. v trhe body was 'lying oh the* edge' of the track, while the head was on almost j ?nrec?gniz?b e mass, ana was lying between the rails. He was a married man. and i3 survived by a widow and seyeral small chilireu. (He was a comparatively young man, being under forty; and hai a large circle of acquaintances in the oity all ofw hom were shocked at the news of his tragic end. |He was one of the best?known wood dealers here, and all who knew apa spoke well of him. His family ?was prostrated with grief when the news of his de:j.h was broken to them and sympathizing frieud3 were at the house all day. ilt is thought that he must have been struck by a train in the earlier ..hours of the morning ss the body was cold when discovered at 7 o'clock. There was no evidence of. aiaaaultorof his bcdy being robbed. CAUSE SCENE IN CHURCH. Two Sisters Tried to Take a Bride From Husband. |A tug of war for possession of a bride for only a few minutes threw the congregation in iihe Cantral Bap tist church of Atlanta into wildest confusion -Sunday night and caused a suspension of the services. ' The tussle W2s between the young husband, George H. Colter, oh one aide, and the two maiden sisters of Sirs. Coker on the other. Mr. and Mrs. Coker had eloped and were mar ried by the pastor of Central church in his study shortly before the even ing service began. Bride and groom decided to remain for the service. While the minister was announc ing his text the two sisters, of Mrs. Coker, 'having learned of what wa-j forward, and hoping to prevent the ?marriage, appeared on the scenj. Deciaring that Mr. Coker should not mtaTry their sister, they attempted tt pull her into the aisle. ? Mr. Coker also laid hold of his wife and be tween them they succeeded in creat ing considerab'e excitement. The combatants were finally per suaded to leave the church, howev er, and .when the sisters of the bride learned that the marriage nad al ready taken place they gave up the fight. BURNED TO DEATH. Three Negro Children Locked Up In a House Alone. Locked in the house and unable to escape, three small negro children burned to death near Kilians, while their mother, Eliza Rhodes, was spending the dt;y in Columbia. The occurence will be investigated by T. F. Davis, magistrate at Kilians. If clrcunistnuces warrant it, the mother of the three children can be held for criminal negligence. !The house in which the children, all of' whom were quite small, wer? confined, while their mother w'as away, is on the plantation of J. 11. Sams, who notified Magistrate J. H. Fowles. Mr. Kowles called up Mr. Davis at Killians, and he is making an Investigation. ?Eliza Rhodes went back to Kil lians from Columbia Tuesday after noon. She did not learn of her chil dren's death until she reached home latte in the afternoon. Shot in His Herne. Alt Bond. Miss., Jesse Odum was ?hot and killed in his home on lastl Monday night. His wife, hearing the cries of her husband, went to him and as she bent over him was also shot and fatally wounded. II Is thought that the murderers are known. Man Shoots His Sons. As the result of a shooting affray engaged in by William Jett, a weal thy farmer and stork raiser, and 'his two sons, Scott and Cl?ren?? Jett, in the family home near Men dora, Va., Saturday. Scott Jett is dying while his brother and his father are dangerously wounded. FOB HIGHWAY ROBBERY AND MURDER CHARGE. Men Implicated in Circus Riot Will Bo Placed on Trial at Lexington November .28th. There may be a wholesale gaug ing over in Lexington County before' many months. The jury coni misslonerjj.'of that county have drawn the jury fpr the special term of cour.t to commence ,on Nov. .28, to try the. IS .men now confined in the Lexlng- j ton jail charged with murder and highway ''ronbery, In connection with ' the kiaihg ol Paul A/Wiujams, the young <Cjlunibia '-freignt clerk, on the.-.Hagenoeck-Wallace circus tr,aln on .ilh'e .night of .October 2nd, jlast. There .have been no recent new developments.'In .the case so far as can be learned. Only one of the men in jail, and he is a* negro, has beenabje to. secure-counsel, it is said, and he is represented by E. L. ?sbili, of Leesviile, his sister having cpme all the way from Chicago to ,100k after ^his interest A close watch has been kept on bhe jail ever since the men have been here, so that there would be no poisioie means of escape. On different occasions, ii. is said, Eonie I of the men on the outside who are I being held as witnesses have become engaged in fights ovi>r disputes rf some character, and more than once have the officers reprimanded them. So far no 'arrangement has been made for a judge to 'try the case, but it is assumed that Judge Gage will preside. PREACHER STOLE CHICKENS And Sold the Poultry He Stole to Another Preacher. A funny mix up of preachers took p!ace at Spartanburg a few days ago. A negro preacher visited the hen house of Rev. L. M. Roper, paBtor of the Firg1 Baptist Church and took seven fine bens, which were later sold to the Rev. W. H. K. Pendleton, pastor of the Church of the Advent. Preacher Henry Worley, as he is known from the pulpit, or Ciareuo Thacker, as he is known when fol lowing his other vocation, wa3 sus pected of the theft of the fowls, and the policft department searched his home... He-^-"was? arrested, an-1 tue tier, Mr. Roper was present ait the trial when the case wa3 called, and positively identified his birds. The Rev. Mr. Pendleton Identified tne negrq as being the one who soM them to him, and Worley or Thack er was convicted. When the officers visited his home they also found a bicycle that was stolen from J. A. Tillinghurst, pro fessor at Converse College. When the negro completes a sentence of three months for the cKy he will be trie! in the Circuit Court on thei charge of the larceny of a bicycle. I HARMON AND WILSON. Senator Money Thinks They Would Make Strong Team. ?Senator Hernando D. Money, Democratic leader in the senate, says that the majority in the Sixty-secona congress should proceed immediately to revise the tariff with any refer ence whatever to the taric commis sion. The senai or arrived at Washing ton Monday from New York. Sena tor Money says that Judson Harmon is the man for president and that in New York all the talk was for Har mon and Wilson. Concerning Gov. Harmon the senator said: "He combines Che essential qual' ties of leadership. His honesty, in tegrity, his courage and the sterling soundness of his democracy; his un paralleled personal triumph: in sweeping Ohio.th e president's own State; the inspiration which his great victory ha.c; given the Demo crats everywhere?are a few of tLe things that ma?e him an ideal candi date. He is a strict constitution,.! and State rights Democrat." Guard the Jail. At Augusta, Ga., T. William Mur ray, who killed Thos. Mitchell, a young white man Saturday night, was captured Sunday. The police feared trouble and made hasty prep arations to prevent his being lynch ed.. At mi Inight it was announced by the police that danger of a lynch ing was over. Wanted a Home. .At New York Peter Lilljjlhn, who wrote a threatening letter 10 John D. Rockefeller demanding $f?0,000 was held in $1,000 ball for the grand jury. The prisoner said he wrote the letter because he had no home and wanted to be arrested that he might have shelter. Millions for Missions. The Methodist Episcoplal church' in the United States will give four j million dollars for missions during: nineteen eleven, according to the ex-J penditures budget, prepared by the bishops for foreign field work. Another Victim. iFootball has claimed a vic-tim in Edward J. Byrnes, who is dying at Milford. Mass., as a result of in juries received in a football scrim mage three months ago. OBANGEBUKG. I VERY STRANGE CASE RICH WOMAN CHARGED WITH TRYING TO PUT HER Husband, Who Is a Millionaire, Out of the Way So She Could Marry a Poor Clerk. A strange case is now being tried at Wheeling, .W. Va-. which shows 'that money does not always bring happiness to those who have plenty of it. Wilson, the chauffeur, swore that Mrs. John O. Schenk, wife of his millionaire employer, had tried to get him to run their car over an embankment, so her husband would be killed, that she might marry a $20 a week clerk. ?Failing in this .scheme the wo man attempted to kill her husband by slow poison, and he is now in a precarious condition. Mr. Schenk, who hovers between life and death, referring to his wife's arrest said: "If what the police tell me is true, she is where she deserves to be." Mr. Schenk has been a man of iron strength up to last June, when he returned from a trip around the world. Shortly after that he began to grow suckly and finally sand into complete Invalldism. It is said that during the summer the Schenks quarreled frequently over the wife's desire for pleasure and companion ship. It is said that Mr. Schenk, him self mentioned 'to a friend his sus picion that some one was poisoning him. The friend notified his rela tives and then began the clever work of the private detectives. Mr. Schenk was confined to his bed, and the nurse who had charge of him was a woman detective. Lundy Wilson, the chauffeur, was displaced by a detective, who is said to have gathered evidence while driv ing Mrs. Schenk about the city. The detealive-nurse is said to have reported to the prosecutor that, on. one occasion, she was trying to open a bottle of lithia water when Mrs. r-chenk- took it from her hands, say ing: "Let me open it: I'm afraid you'll cut your hand." This, 't is believed, was the first intimation of the method of the pois oning. Several half consumed bot tles of the water were sent to the chemists of the University of Vir ginia and John Hopkins Universtiy The reports came back that all were quantity. Mr. Schenk was taken to the hos pital about two weeks ago. And, even there, according to the accus ers, Mrs. Schenk offered a nurse? also the detective?$l,u00 to poison her husband. FOUND IN THE WOOJJS. The Sad Story of a Mountain Girl Who Was Deserted. A special to the News and Courier 3ays tired and hungry, cold and deso late, suffering miseries imfanttiom able by minds which have never experience such difficulties and dard ships, a pretiy mountain lass wad found asleep in the depths of the for ests near Spartanburg Tuesday morn in?, where sheh ad been since Oc tober 25. ?Her case is a sad one, a most vivid imagination can picture nothing worse. She has been made to reai ize that the way of the transgress or i3 hard. Lured away from her happy home in Waynesville, N. C, it is said, an innocent mountain lass, inexpcr;enc en in the ways of the world that reaches far beyond the mountains towering far above the cosey little cottage she has left, she has suffer ed tortures that would lead any or dinary person to put an end to so miserable an existence. The departure from her home quickly followed her first sin. The lights of the cities ha3 that fatal at traction for her. In's the same ck; story, arrested and served, a sent en'-e of thirty days in jail, when reloaded she did not have money enough to bay a sandwich, and her only ga> nient was one dress. Officers of the Salvation Army helped her, fed and clothed her. A map came, claimed that she was his cousin and the two departed from the Army headquarters and the inci dent for tne itJme was forgotten. He attempted to take her to an other city, but failed. She escaped and roamed through the woods for nearly three weeks. 0 ft! im es she was days and days without food. 'A good man found her, brought her to this city and again turned her over to the Salvation Army, wbic'i bad helped her on a previous occa sion. She has been sent to the res rue home of this organization located in Greenville. S. C. Auto driver Killed. Tobin De Hymel. widely known driver of racing automobiles, w<t3 killed while participating in the races at San Antonio, Texas, Satur day afternoon when his car lost a wheel and was wrecked. Calf Swallows Money. A Clinon, Spartanburg County, calf chewed up a pocket book, con taining $118 in paper bills. Tho [ calf was killeda nd the money re covered In somewhat dilapidated con 1 dition. 3c C, TH?KSDAY, KOVJK If?ffl That Is the Meaobg of the Landslide and Not a Mere Slap at Teddy. ROOSEVET A HUMBUG Of the First Water Is the General Opinion of Republicans and Dem ocrats, But Many -Democratic Ideas Which He Stole and Pre tended to Stand for Are Good. (Zach McGhee, the accomplished Washington correspondent af The State, who made an extensive tour of the country just .before the elec tion and gave his Impression of things political in Utters to The State, Is back on his job at Wash ington, and is now writing once more his interesting letters from the capital of the nation to The State. He says of course the one topic of discussion in Washington is the Democratic programme. But, cou pled wii:h this equally, of course, i? a consideration of the the meaning of the Democratic lands,Ide. As al ready noted in this correspondence, certain influences are bei.ng brought to bear to persuade or to scare the Democratic house into making a fool of itself. This influence will be exerted with unremitting endeavor from now on, and it will require no little nerve and strength of character on the part of theDemocrats who have been elect ed to the Sixty-second congress to resist It. No effort will be spared by the j New York press to dominate the sit uation. And the New York yapers are particularly influential in the South, where, unfortunately, many people, including not a few news paper editors, take their cues from what these New York papers say. These New York papers, it should be bourne in mind, really know less about the real sentiment in the coun try as well as about the conditions west of the Hudson river than per haps any other newspapers in the whole United States. But just be cause New York is big and the news papers there are big, the people, es pecially, I 6ay, in the Sou.h, and more especiallythose in newspaper offices, read them and ere Influenc ed by them. Furthermore, most of these New York newspapers get th-2ir own pre vailing sentiment, honestly in most cases, I believe, but surely, from the financial districts cf the great me tropUis, rather than from the rank and file, the ordinary, every-day cit izen. These papers have set out now, and honestly again I am willing to concede, but mistakenly, to' make the whole country bellove that the recent Democratic landslide is a tri umph for what they term "conserva tism," for the "safe and sane Democ racy," which ought to be termed the "inane Democracy," This means nothing, while the trusts, the finan cial sharks and other marauders loot the people. This is the meaning of the continued harping cn squelching of Roosevelt. Now there are those hereabouts and they are among the keenest ob-; servers of politics in .the country,,' who think that this Democratic vic tory means nothing of the sort, "means not a repudiation of Roosevelt at all, but a repudiation of the dom inance of the Republican party by tr.ose who are supposed to be the enemies of Roosevelt. Note, plea3?, the word "supposed". Rcosevelt is humbug of the first water, and that tact is practically admitted by ev erybody hereabouts, Democrats and Republicans of all shades. It has been so recognized herea bouts for a lonj time. But at the same time the things which Roose velt has been saying he is in favor of are generally all right. The coun try wants them. The leaders of the Democratic party wants them, so far as they can be brought about with in the constitution. Roosevelt has failed to get them. He only keeps on blustering about them. Thus he is a humbug. ?The one towering lec.der, to whom the Democrats in these parts are turning now is Woodrow Wilson, just elected governor of New .Jersey by a tremendous majority after conduct in? a campaign cf leadership which ireally led somewhere. Prominent Democrats here who are trying to influence the Democratic programme with respect to the measures which have brer. :-?foro th country the past year, especially the tariff, are consid ering the desirability of calling into /their conferences the^ New Jersey I governor-elect. Now 1 can say of my own knowl edge that Dr. Wilson is not In any sense what has been termed a "re actionary." He does not favor u::d! docs not have any tolerance for the methods of Roosevelt, having ninrci respect for the law and the constitu tion and a tiret regard for the truth. Cut at the same time he does favor a very decided and a very definite! programme of governmental reform including most of the measures that Roosevelt himself has pretended to he friendiy to. Mention Is made of the >"cw Jer sey governor elect for the reason that he Is looked upon hereabouts, as I have said above, as the mcuf con splcious Democratic leader in the MBJ3R 17 1910. GUILTY OF MURDER IS THE VERDICT IN THE CASE OF THREE WHITE MES Who Were Convicted of Murdering Another White Man at Walhalla Last December. 'The jury in the Emerson murder case at Walhalla rendered a verdicl of guilty of murder with a recom mendation of mercy as to all three defendants, Cantrell, Gaines and An gel, after being out for four and a quarter hours last Saturday night. (The jury of which W. M. -Brown was foreman was composed of repre sentative men of almost all sections of the county, and their verdict meats with general approval. The dead body of Robert C. Emer son was found near the Blue Ridge tresle in Walhalla on the morning of December 6, last. Afler several hearings the coroners jury rendered a verdict that Emerson came to his death from cause or causes unknown to them?some of the defendants be inr members of this jury. 'M. C. Long took an active interest in this case from the beginning, say ing that an atrocious crime had been committed. For months he has toil ed almost single-handed and alone, beset with many obstacles. The pub lic, at large, had almost concluded that he was leading a forlorn hopi ?and it was not till the second day of the 'trial that the citizenship be gan to realize that Mr. Long was on the right track and was doing noble service for the cause of good govern ment, that Walhalla, Oconee county, and the State at large owe to him a debt of gratitude for unearthing a :rime that would net otherwise hav3 ever been brought to light. The evidence of the negro, Henry Brown, who testified that he was with (the three white men on the fat al night, was corroborated in many points of various witnesses. The dif ferent statements male by other witnesses, who had had conversa-, (ilons with the defendants, were wov en into a chain of evidence so strong ly that the defense weie unable 'to break It. The defense claim that is was only probable that Emerson was killed, that he had fallen from the 'trestle in 'his drunken condition and was responsible for his own death, but if he were killed that the negro Brown killed him and that his motive was robbery. The defense endeavored to prove that Brown was with Emer son early in the night of December 6 and that Brown saw the helpless condition of Emerson and how e?3y It was for Brown to have committed the deed. It is supposed that the usual mo tions will be made for new trial. Ail I'.hree defendants were well known men, and all have families, wives and children. Many of their rela tives are the very best people in the county. Mr. Cantrell's wife was with him at court. Mrs. Gaines is in Oklahoma and Mrs. Angel is m Atlanita. East, and I wanted to tell what I knew about him, that if anybody puts Woo:lrow Wilson down as a tcol of the so-called "interests" or as a man who is going to act in ac cord with this programme, this sn cnlled "safe and sane" Democracy, there will be some mightily disap pointed folks round about New York and those places which take their cues of what is "safe and sane" from certain of the New York newspapers. He knows, by the way, as every one else can see, that as Roosevelt did cot come nto New Jersey or refer to the New Jersey campaign, the no-t be ascribed to the ao:lvities ot Democratic victory in that State can the dethroned Oyster Bay boss. Nevertheless efforts will be made to show that Wilson's triumph in New Jersey as well a3 the Democratic victory every where does mean a pro:es>t against Roosevelt and what Ujcisevel): is "supposed" to stand fur. And you may look out for it. Tiie object of these efforts is to pre vent the Democratic parly from re ducing the tariff duties, regulating the corporations and making prim ary election laws and adopting oili er so-cr.lled "radical" measures. The result in Ohio would have been the same had Roosevelt never goriu lucre. And so it would have been in India. Roosevelt undonbl edly won votes for the Democratic ticket in New York, but the chances are he also lost a coodly number for the Democrats. He did this, tro, by the most unscrupulous dema?ogy of which he is capable, and that is put ting Ll pretty stronr. Nevertheless, demagogy docs work in New Yo'k. and I know some very astute politi cal observers there who think tbdt if Roosevelt had not entered the cam paign the Democrats would have pil ed up a bigger majority than they did. Of course, there is muen rejoicing hereabout ;hat T. R. was defeated i:i Now York and that, in the lan guage of the street, he h-.s go*; bis. But tlifr? is no considerable decep tion as ;o the real meaning of the landslide, nut at least among those who can keep their heads in spite cf the din made by money':; tcols. Twenty-three Persons Killed. A dispatch from Shanghai, China, says that 23 persons were killed by an explosion in a cartridge fa 'jry at Pucipo. SHOULD BE OBSERVED GOV. ANSEL ISSUES THANKSGIV ING PROCLAMATION. He Say9 Great Prosperity Has Bless . ed South Carolina and Calls on Peeople to Give Thanks. Governor Martin F. Ansel, ir his Thanksgiving proclamation, issued Monday morning, calls attention to ifcbe prosperity of the Palmetto State. "The earth has yielded her. fruit in good measure, we have prospered In many ways," he writes. Thanksgiv ing day falls this year on November 24, which is Thursday. The fol lowing is, in part, the governor's proclamation: "We have, as a people, and as a State, many things to be thankful for in this good year nineteen hundred and ten. We have been spared frorr pestilence and famine; the health of our people has been reasonably good; the earth has yielded her fuka n good measure, we have pro?p.ued I.: many ways and our religious and ed ucational liberties havebe en protect ed and increased. "Hearing in mind these many bles sings, we should not forget the time nor the season for our annual lhanks riving, but in accordance with the time-honored custom observe one d*/ for praise, prayer and gratitude 'i God for all these things. ("Therefore, I, M. F. Ansel, govern or of ;the State of South Carolina, do hereby designate and appoint Thursday, the twenty-fourth day ol November, A. D. 1910, as a day of general thanksgiving. Let the peo ple put aside their labors forithe day,' assemble in their churches and in their homes and give thanks to God fcr his many mercies and blessings to them, to the Sta<te and to the nation. Let them also of their sub stance give to the poor and to the needy and especially to the orphan ages within the State. And let us all make special prayer for the con tinued eoodness of God 'to us in the coming years." ANOTHER FOOTBALL TRAGEfr1. Causes Two Other Colleges to With draw From Game. At Wheeling, W. Va., the coro ner's jury Monday night returned, a verdict of accidental death in the case of Rudolph.M?nk, the West Vir ginia university player, who died of injuries received in a football game Saturday. This exonerates young McCoy, right end of the Beth any team who fell on M?nk in the scrimmage and was charge dwith murder. As a result of the tragedy the university council of West Virginia university canceled the remaining football games scheduled because ot ?the death Saturday of Capt. Rudolph M?nk. Charles E, Hogg, dean of the university law school, was directed to represent the university at the funeral of the young man. (There will be no more football at Bethany eithpr this year as a result of the tragedy at Wheeling Satur day af.erncon when Capt. M?nk, of the Weslt Virginia university was fatally injured in the game with Bethany college. At a meeting of the faculty and the student body it was voted to abolish the remaining scheduled games. WANTED HIM LYNCHED. Ashary Park Mob Recks Life of the Alleged Murderer. Following an abortive attempt by a mob at Asbury Park, N. ,L, to lynch Thomas Williams, 'the negro suspect ed of the murder of nine-year-olo. Mary Smith, the prisoner trembling with fear and on the verge of col lapse, was quietly removed from the jaM and whisked away in an auto mobile to the county jail at Freehold. T'.io inc-D had scattered and the streets had been cleared so that the officers in charge of the prisener had little difficulty in getting him out of !own. Williams denies all knowl edge of the crime, and from official i sources it was learned he had ap parently established a good alibi. He j is being held without hail for fur ther examination and to await thy Inquest. Noted Case Eluded.' At Nashville. Tenn., Robin J. Cooper, charged with murderin? for mer United States Senator Edward W. Carmack, November ">, 1908, wasi g.ivcn a verdict of not guilty in 1 criminal court Tuesday morning on I the recommendation of Attorney General Anderson. Thus was clos ed one of the most celebrated cases j in Tennessee court annals. Pokes Fun at Teddy. Charles Si ITernley, formerly chau-j man of the Now York Republican slate committee, Ins written to Theo dore Rcoscvclt as follows: "As scon asyo u reach the botion of the to boggan and catch your breath, please send me one big stick hippotamus as a souvenir of the recent election." I Three Cadets Expelled. Three cade's have been expelled from the Citadel Academy at Char leston for hazing. Col. Band would not furnish the names, but It is un ! derstood from reliable sources that I leston for hazing. Col. Bond would are the boys who have been shipped. WO CENTS PER COPY FROM SHIP Ely Flies in a Biplane Frcra the Deck of the Cruiser Birmingham. FIVE MILES TO SHORE First Flight of the Kind the World Has Ever Seen?Naval Expert Declares That Flight is Proof of the Utility of Air Craft m i War. ?A dispatch from Fort Monroe, Va.. says aerial navigation proved Mon day that it is a factor which must be dealt with in the naval tactics of the world's future, if the success ful flights made by Eugene B. Ely in a Curtiss biplane from the deck of the crusier Birmingham can be tak en as a criterion. From Hampton Roads, the scene 45 years ago of another epoch-mak ing experiment in the history of na val warfare, when an ironclad prov ed its superiority over the former type of fightlni vessel, the aviator Monday flew across the lower end of Chesapeake bay, landing on the opposite side from this fort. In weather conditions unfavorable for flying, the daring birdman short ly aOter 3 o'clock Monday afternoon glided from the platform erected.oh the front of the big black cruBier. swooped down like an immense bird of prey unltil he touched the water, then lose rapidly into the misty air. of the lower bay and was off in the direction of the broad Atlantic. Five minutes after having taken his sudden farewell of the Birming ham he was a lost speck on the eas tern horizon and had landed safely on Will?ughby Spit. The impact with which the big machine struck the water after its 37^foot drop from the front of the crusier caused one of the propeller blades to be jagged as though a coarse saw had gone along its edge and a small piece was split from the blade. But not for an instant was the speed of the aer oplane lessened and it darted aw?jr with express-train rapidity on its victorious flight. Intermittent rain throughout tho day, small hail showers, and con tinuous fog, almost compelled ihn. aviator to postpone his flight.. But he was determined to prove, as he said after the flight, that he couJd accomplish more than had been ex pected of him. Furthermore, he did not wait for the Birmingham to get into motion which would have added to his mo mentum and have been a great help to him, but, seizing an opportune moment between showers, he was off before those who were on the Srhip> with him and on the other vessel, stationed at various points nearby to follow an.! assist him in case of need were aware that he was ready for his wonderful flight, the first of its kind the world has ever seen. Ely proved that is it possible lo fly safely from a ship, and after hav ing done this, asserted with empha sis that 1-t would be an easy matter for an aeroplane to alight on a vessel, either while the latter was moving or stationary. Naval experts who witnessed the flight expressed their belief that the navies of the world In i'he future must take the aero plane into consideration when may ping out plans of action. Capt. Washington I. Chambers, who has been detailed by the navy department as chairman of a board for aeromru! leal investigation, de clared that the flight was more than he had anticipated and he is con fident tha-'.. the time is near when all < scout crusiers will be equipped with a number of aeroplanes. They mil* not be for battleship use, he explain ed, but for scout duty in connection with the work of the scout crusiers of the navy. The distance which Mr. Ely flaw was nearly five miles. The Birming ham was lying In the roads only a quarter of a mile from the Hotel Chamberlain. It was 3:10 when ho took to the air; five minutes later he v.'as sxt'fl on the solid soil of Virginia, few miles north of Norfolk. Mr. ICly, af ter being brought back on a launch and placed r.board the Roe, said he was not fond of the water, but hn had conquered his fears long enough to remain over it in fog and ac complish his purpose. W:hen he struck (the water on div ing off the Birmingham, salt water dashed into his face and goggles, so that for several minutes he could not see in which direction he was going He had planned to take a somewhat different course from 'that which he actually followe and landed a little further to the north. The greatest height ho attained was estimated at about 500 fret. His striking the water, he said af terward, was due ^o a slight miscil culation. He had planned before he left the incline on the Birmingham to drop near the water so as to get the momentum which he wanted to carry him upwards: but he over reached the mark slightly. Cun This Be So? Augusta, Ga. has a population of 37.S2G. according to statistics uf the 13th century made public Monday night. This is a decrease of 1,615, or 4.1 per cent, under 39,6441 1a 1900.